Gests Quotes & Sayings

That was around 2002, and I was then a doctoral researcher at MIT. I proposed to Habitat for Humanity an idea for a home that would be 100 percent made of living matter (shaped trees and woody plants), entitled Fab Tree Hab. — Nina Tandon, Mitchell Joachim

All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another. — Lysander Spooner

It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old. — Charlaine Harris

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad. — Robert Jarvik

Don't set your wit against a child. — Jonathan Swift

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves. — Erica Cerra

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim — Bono

True it is that troubles niver come single, they're married an' has children. — Jean Webster

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth. — Manoj Bhargava

A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel was that the story should be about what the main character wants. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. George Milton wants a farm of his own. Amelia Sedley wants to marry her darling George and live happily ever after. The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gests what he wants or realizes he's never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn't actually want what she thought she wanted all along.
pg. 324 of Bewitching — Alex Flinn

Man is the only animal to borrow tools. — Tim Allen